PECKER, 



INDIAN ZOOLOGY, 



VI. 



PIC US MINIATUS. 

 THE RED WOODPECKER. 



Picus MiniatuSj Gmelin. Lin. i. 4^. Latham, ii. 595, 

 Index Ornith. i. 241. 



R. Loten (hot this on the Highlands of Java. It is ^1^^°°°' 

 called by the Malaya7is, Toekan, or the Carpenter, a 

 name they give to woodpeckers in general, from the noife 

 thefe birds niake in boring trees, which refembles that 

 made by a workman. 



It is drawn the fize of life. The bill is of a dulky 

 blue: the head of a deep dull red, and adorned with a 

 long ere ft pointing backwards: on the chin is a fpot of 

 yellow. 



The hind part of the neck, the back, the coverts, and 

 fecondary feathers of the wings, are of the color of red 

 lead: the fore part of the neck is of a rofe-eolor: the 

 belly white. 



The quil-feathers black, marked with large white 

 fpots : the coverts of the tail green : the tail confifts of 

 fharp-poin ted feathers, like the European kind, and is of 

 a deep blue. 



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